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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 324: Tetris Battle Gaiden

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the game where werewolves and ninjas fight over Tetris pieces. This weekend's Patreon Bonus Get episode will be House of the Dead 2. 

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 323: Chrono Cross

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Chrono Trigger sequel with 45 playable characters that aren't named Chrono. This weekend's Patreon Bonus Get episode will be Danganronpa.  

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Serious Sam: The Second Encounter

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/serious-sam-the-second-encounter/

A more serious Sam brings more enemies, weapons and bosses.

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Serious Sam: The First Encounter

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/serious-sam-the-first-encounter/

While most first person shooters took after Half-Life and Halo throughout the early 2000s, Serious Sam stayed closer to the roots of the 1990s. There were tons of games in this series, including many spinoffs - we'll be covering all of them throughout the next week or so.

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 107: Quest for Glory: So You Want to be a Hero

Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games.   

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 322: Maui Mallard in: Cold Shadow

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the game where Donald Duck pretends to be detective named Maui Mallard who turns into a ninja named Cold Shadow.  

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Chameleon Twist

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/chameleon-twist/

One of the earlier 3D platformers for the Nintendo 64, with a tongue-lashing gimmick.

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 321: Ground Control

 Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Massive Entertainment's real-time tactics classic where everybody wants a piece of Krig 7-B. 

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Simulacra

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/simulacra/

A horror game as viewed through a smartphone-like device.

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 320: Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the PS2 platformer starring everyone's favorite-by-default hat-wearing fox-poodle. This weekend's Patreon Bonus Get episode will be Ultima IV. 

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 106: Fatal Frame

Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games   

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 105: Prince of Persia

Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games   

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Silent Hill Origins

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/silent-hill-origins/

 Silent Hill Origins, the first of the Western-developed games in the series, created as a prequel initially for the PSP 

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Gunforce II

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gunforce-ii/

The first Gunforce was an okay run-and-gun, but THIS is basically Metal Slug 0.

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Gunforce

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gunforce/

Irem's arcade run-and-gun, which serves a predecessor to Metal Slug.

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Doman: Grzechy Ardana

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/doman-grzechy-ardana/

An Amiga beat-em-up from the folks behind Franko: The Crazy Revenge.

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Patreon Preview: The Unofficial Guide to Shin Megami Tensei and Persona

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ibo5lu59vmw8vpo/Shin%20Megami%20Tensei%20Book%20-%20Sample%20-%20July%202020.pdf?dl=0

It's been over a year since the last preview, so I figure I'd get together what I have and show it off! This version is about 85% complete and contains full reviews for the mainline Shin Megami Tensei series as well as most of ...

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 319: The Last of Us

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank The Last of Us, a game that should have had more teenagers doing rails of fungus powder. But it's still pretty good.  

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Astrocounter of Crescents

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/astrocounter-of-crescents/

A mecha beat-em-up from Korea released in the 1990s, roughly similar to Mad Stalker.

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 318: Shadow Hearts Covenant

 Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the PS2 RPG that finds the common ground between talking dogs, Pinocchio, and World War I. 

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Patreon Exclusive Preview: HG101 Guide to Beat-em-ups Vol. 1

It's been awhile since we posted a preview of some of the work-in-progress books, so here's one of them - the HG101 Guide to Beat-em-ups Vol. 1. In its current state, it has all of Konami's games covered, a good chunk of Capcom's, and Streets of Rage. The final release will cover Final Fight, Double Dragon, and all of the Kunio/Renegade/River City games, plus whatever else we can squeeze in. Most of these are edited versions from the site, except we're still in the process of completely redoi...

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Tokyo Insect Zoo

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/tokyo-insect-zoo-japanese-video-game-obscurity/

Japanese Video Game Obscurity: Tokyo Insect Zoo, or Kafka's Metamorphosis for Kids 

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 104: Epic Pinball

Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games  

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Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/cognition-an-erica-reed-thriller/

The first original title from Phoenix Online, creators of Sierra fan games, with contributions by Gabriel Knight creator Jane Jensen.

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 317: Nox

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Nox, a colorful dungeon-clicker from the late pre-rendered sprite era. 

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Red Alert OL

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/red-alert-ol/

A follow-up to the many Command and Conquer articles from a few months ago, here's Red Alert re-imagined as a mobile base building game, exclusive for China.

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Karuizawa Yuukai Annai

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/karuizawa-yuukai-anna/

The last of the Yuji Horii adventure game trilogy, which was cut short after the success of Dragon Quest. This is the least known of these games, since it was never ported outside of the PC, and its content is a little...spicy.

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 316: Shin Megami Tensei IV

 Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Shin Megami Tensei IV, the game that is not Persona IV. 

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RC1 - Clash of Steel (Reconsidered)

Join the HG101 gang as they reconsider a game that's already been ranked because some dedicated Patron shelled out the cash to make 'em do it! Note that reconsiderations are NOT re-rankings.

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 315: Rayman Raving Rabbids

 Join the HG101 gang as they rank and discuss the game where Rayman keeps it gangsta. This weekend's Patreon Bonus Get episode will be Prince of Persia. 

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